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My work project has gone in fits and starts ever since I started this project, back in November of 2011. It took nearly a year to get the initial data working properly with the modeling program I am using, and then they replaced that version of the program with a whole new approach, which, much to my delight, speaks to the program I use for graphing my geochemical data. Through trial and error I just managed to do the calculations necessary to determine the way in which some of my samples (for only one rock type) have changed due to the hydrothermal alteration which was responsible for the ore deposits in my field area on time to get my poster ready for the conference I went to in the middle of my summer holiday.
Once the conference was over I had another couple of weeks off, during which we managed some progress on yard work, and then switch focus to the Lajv event I wrote about in my last post. No sooner did I return to work and it was time for the short course I had organized for the above mentioned modeling program. That was last week, and the course turned out to be very valuable for me.
While I had learned a few tricks on using that program on my own before the course, I learned ever so much more in the three days of the course, and I am glad that I made the time to set it up (since I organized the venue at the uni several of us here got to attend the course for free). The course was set up so that Tuesday and Wednesday we worked with lessons that made use of data the instructor provided, but Thursday we worked with our own data while the instructor was available for assisting us with the best ways to accomplish our goals.
In theory, I had Friday available for continuing to apply what I learned, but I had caught a minor cold after the Lajv last weekend; while it didn't slow me down during the three days of class, by Friday I was feeling pretty exhausted, so only managed to accomplish a few hours of administrative sorts of tasks, rather than doing any real research.
This week I had been looking forward to making some good progress on the actual modeling. One of my colleagues from the mine is in town and we are planning on working together this week. However, rather than jump right into doing the models, he started asking me if I have certain sets of data that, it turns out, were not in the data set they gave me when I started this project. This morning I had a bit more than 2000 samples to use as the basis for my models, now I have another 900 that need to be integrated into my data set. I made some progress on the many, many steps that go into that task today, but one day is so not enough. Tomorrow I shall return to the project, and, if we are lucky, we will get to a point where we can do something with that data soon...
Once the conference was over I had another couple of weeks off, during which we managed some progress on yard work, and then switch focus to the Lajv event I wrote about in my last post. No sooner did I return to work and it was time for the short course I had organized for the above mentioned modeling program. That was last week, and the course turned out to be very valuable for me.
While I had learned a few tricks on using that program on my own before the course, I learned ever so much more in the three days of the course, and I am glad that I made the time to set it up (since I organized the venue at the uni several of us here got to attend the course for free). The course was set up so that Tuesday and Wednesday we worked with lessons that made use of data the instructor provided, but Thursday we worked with our own data while the instructor was available for assisting us with the best ways to accomplish our goals.
In theory, I had Friday available for continuing to apply what I learned, but I had caught a minor cold after the Lajv last weekend; while it didn't slow me down during the three days of class, by Friday I was feeling pretty exhausted, so only managed to accomplish a few hours of administrative sorts of tasks, rather than doing any real research.
This week I had been looking forward to making some good progress on the actual modeling. One of my colleagues from the mine is in town and we are planning on working together this week. However, rather than jump right into doing the models, he started asking me if I have certain sets of data that, it turns out, were not in the data set they gave me when I started this project. This morning I had a bit more than 2000 samples to use as the basis for my models, now I have another 900 that need to be integrated into my data set. I made some progress on the many, many steps that go into that task today, but one day is so not enough. Tomorrow I shall return to the project, and, if we are lucky, we will get to a point where we can do something with that data soon...